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Can Ubuntu Linux Close the Digital Divide?
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| Sure, Ubuntu Linux holds great promise as a tool that helps to shrink the
| digital divide. Netbooks (low-cost subnotebooks) with Ubuntu Remix are
| expected to flood the market this winter. And Intel continues to press
| forward with its Classmate PCs — low-cost systems that target K-6 schools in
| the U.S. and K-12 in emerging markets. Now comes word of Untangle leading the
| Installfest at LinuxWorld Expo.
|
| [...]
|
| Meanwhile, K-12 school kids in Vermont and neighboring states were sharing
| dial-up connections in computer labs. And recent high school graduates were
| heading off to college and never returning home. Instead, they were
| relocating — permanently — to towns that had broadband.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/03/can-ubuntu-linux-close-the-digital-divide/
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 102
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| QA to Launchpad Liaison, MOTU news, New Ubuntu Members, Ubuntu Screencasts,
| Ubuntu Global Bug Jam, New in Intrepid Ibex, Launchpad 2.0, Ubuntu-UK podcast
| #11, Linux pre-installs at 3%, Steve Stalcup interview, Server Team summary,
| and much, much more!
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue102
Recent:
In Defense of a Linux Education
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| The difference between learning how to use a new tool and learning a new
| concept is the same difference between receiving training and gaining an
| education. How many times have you heard (or said) that algebra and history
| are not “useful” in “real life”? I can understand when such a claim is made
| by a sixth-grade student who has much time left to decide on a career, but
| I’ve even heard college students complain that their programs of study should
| focus on what they will “do for a living” and that all of the basic curricula
| should be dropped. “I’ve already taken that in high school!” they cry. What
| many students never come to understand is that by teaching you the same old
| things in new, more complex ways forces your mind to think differently, to
| grow.
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http://linuxfud.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/in-defense-of-a-linux-education/
Microsoft, the Bully
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| Microsoft is sending letters to school districts insisting on audits to make
| sure they are paying for all the licenses they should be.
|
| [...]
|
| However, along with that threatening letter is a sales brochure for a new
| license program from MS: pay us money for every PC in the district capable of
| running Windows and pay for it every year. Over and over again. Every year.
|
| [...]
|
| But then I think…Linux is free.
|
| Linux will never threaten you.
|
| Linux will never ask you for money.
|
| Linux will never try and revoke your ability to use it.
|
| Linux will never ask you to not share.
|
| Linux encourages you to give back and make things better and share that
| better with others.
|
| Linux has a nice soft fluffy mascot.
|
| Linux loves children.
|
| It seems like such an easy decision.
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http://leotree.com/?p=765
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